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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Maybe you should read up a bit more on arbitration
http://blogs.thescore.com/nhl/2012/0...med-too-harsh/
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&sourc...m-Fm97fAM3HqPQ
Feaster hired outside council to determine what the comparables were for Russel and Butler. He believes both had fairly strong cases as per the press conference. There have been some crazy arbitration decisions in the past.
Bad players shouldn't get large arbitration awards but they actually have and that's where you're wrong. I don't see any made up excuses. I think in this case you're underrating the possibility of a bad arbitration decision.
And that's without even touching on the process itself which is usually very painful to the player as the team rips into him as much as possible which can cause permanent damage to the team/player relationship.
Arbitration is definitely to be avoided if possible, you can see from history how much teams are scared of these decisions. |
Good post. It's important to control the outcome in any negotiation. Once it goes to arbitration or to any situation where the outcome is out of your hands, there is big risk. It's simply not good enough to argue that the player would unlikely get the amount that he signed for in an arbitration, therefore that amount is wrong. In the end it's about risk analysis and I totally get why Feaster did what he did.